Gee, I hate getting here late. That's a great site Bert!!!

Rick, you got some good info fast......The only thing I'd add is that the Turner production of the story on TV was truly pathetic. There was enough drama and heroism and cowardice and suspense in the real story without adding in the typical love interests and complete fabrications.

If you (like Meebo and I) get a chance to see the memorial display in SC, do it. Like so many other things from that time period I was overcome by the thought that this was a different breed of man......same feeling I get when I think of the forced marches prior to Chickamauga, or a lot of other CW events.

The Hunley was TINY!!!! I mean REALLY TINY!!! And it looks like an iron coffin to begin with. Guys our size couldn't have fit through the hatch!!! Engineering-wise it was primitive at best and I think the men who manned her must have had small bodies and huge nuts.

Spaw